A man accused of murdering three women and hiding their bodies in plastic bags across East Cleveland, Ohio, appeared in court Monday to face charges.

Registered sex offender Michael Madison, 35, was charged with three counts of aggravated murder and three counts of kidnapping in connection with the murders of three women he allegedly told investigators were inspired by a notorious serial killer who plagued the area two years ago.

A woman's body was found on Friday in a garage and two other bodies were found on Saturday - one in a nearby backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. One has been identified as 38-year-old Angela Deskins, officials announced just before the hearing.

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Pictured: Accused East Cleveland serial killer Michael Madison was arraigned Monday morning in connection with the deaths of three women

Madison waived a preliminary hearing and his bond was set at $6million, one million for each count levied against him. He did not enter a plea.

The accused killer could face life in prison or the death penalty if found guilty of the murders. The case will proceed to Cuyahoga County Court, no date has yet been set for the next hearing.

The search is continuing for further
bodies today as police believe there may be more victims among the
neighborhoods many vacant houses.East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph
Spotts told searchers he believes there could be one or two more
victims, according to theAssociated Press.

Spotts told volunteers searching the neighborhood's vacant homes to be alert for the smell of rotting, the AP reported.

Victim 2: The second victim found has been identified as 38-year-old Angela Deskins, officials have not yet provided any further information on her cause of death

Arraigned: Madison was charged with three counts each of aggravated murder and kidnapping at Monday's hearing

Emotionless: Madison showed no emotion as the counts against were read in court Monday

Police said the three bodies found were female, but they do not yet know the identities of any
of the victims or the cause of death. All of the women were black and
each body was wrapped in four or five plastic bags. The bodies have been
sent to the coroner's office.

All
three women are believed to have been killed in the last six to 10
days but are decomposed to the point that the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson told media Monday that determining 'identification and final cause of death may take several days' and will be made available as soon as possible.

With the autopsies now complete, Gilson added that he is awaiting the results of DNA and dental records testing to help identify the two Jane Doe victims. Gilson did not indicate where Deskins was found.

Taken away: Madison is taken away by court deputies after Monday's hearing

One of the two unidentified women has a number of tattoos that investigators are hoping help identify her. One is a red star with some lines coming through it at the base of her left thumb. Another is a purple and green flower next to the name 'Gene' on the front of her left forearm. The name 'Gene' is also tattoed next to a pair of lips on the back of her left forearm. 'Lil Wayne' is tattooed on the woman's left breast.

Madison was arrested after a two-and-a-half hour standoff with police on Friday.

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said that Madison said during police questioning that Sowell might have inspired the killings and told investigators there may be more bodies.

'He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence,' Norton told the AP.

Grim discovery: Law enforcement and FBI stand at the back of a boarded-up home where bodies were found earlier in the day Saturday, July 20, 2013 in East Cleveland, Ohio

Crime scene: An investigator looks through a boarded-up house on Shaw Ave. in Cleveland, near the location where bodies were found earlier in the day on Saturday

Served: A notice posted on the address where Michael Madison was arrested Friday afternoon by East Cleveland, OH police

Police connected Madison to the murders after one of the bodies was found next to a car he was driving, according to WOIO. The suspected killer was arrested at his mother's house a short distance away after a two and a half hour standoff.

A man in prison with Madison during the alleged killer's four-year sentence for attempted rape told WOIO that Madison admired Sowell. Madison served time from 2002 to 2006 after agreeing to a plea deal for attempted rape after being charged with attempted rape, gross sexual imposition and kidnapping with sexual motivation in connection with a 2001 attack on a local woman, according to court records.

'He was not stable,' Brandon Trussell told the station, adding 'yeah, he said he respected him.'

There may be more: East Cleveland Police are scouring the neighborhood where three bodies were found after suspected killed Michael Madison reportedly told them there may be more victims

The search resumes: Police resumed looking Sunday morning near where three bodies were recently found in East Cleveland, Ohio

No stone unturned: Police plan to search every abandoned house, including property, in the neighborhood after suspected killer Michael Madison said there may be more bodies

Crime scene: The first body was found Friday in this East Cleveland garage after a neighbor called police to report a foul odor

Captured: A two and a half hour standoff between Madison and police came to an end when this tank broke down the door to his mother's home, where had been in hiding

Madison was charged with possession of, preparation for sale and trafficking of cocaine after a 2000 arrest, according to court records. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, but it is unclear how much time he actually served on this charge. The sentence ran concurrent with the six month sentence he received for a 1999 drug possession arrest.

He was then arrested again in 2001 for attempted drug possession and sentenced to another 12 months in prison before being arrested only three months later for attempted rape, records show.

The first woman to be found was described as 5'3 and 110 pounds, according to Cleveland.com.

A
second victim was discovered 150 feet from the carport where the first
victim as found. She was in a lot with heavy weeds. Norton said she had a
tattoo of a pink flower with green leaves on her left thigh.

Anthony Sowell 'The Cleveland Strangler'

Discovered by police after a woman escaped his home during an attempted rape and called 911 to report the crime

Beat, raped and strangled 11 women to death from June 2007 to July 2009

Hid the bodies in and around his home, with some found wrapped in plastic, others buried in shallow graves outside

All of the victims were either recovering or current drug addicts aged 24 to 52

Was in a relationship with the niece of then-East Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, she was also a drug addict

The ex-Marine was a convicted sex offender who was released from prison just before going on his killing spree

Sentenced to death in 2011, is currently sitting in prison awaiting execution

The third woman was found in a basement of a vacant house adjacent to the overgrown lot.

Norton told The Plain Dealer it appeared that woman, who was wearing a purple top with a leopard print pattern, had been thrown through a window into the basement.

All three bodies found were wrapped in several plastic bags in the fetal position, officials said.

Police are still searching other vacant houses in the neighborhood for other possible victims.

'I don't know if there are anymore bodies out there,' Norton told the newspaper. 'It is all tying back to the same guy.'

There may be more bodies: Suspected serial killer Michael Madison has told authorities there may be more victims

All hands on deck: City of East Cleveland service department employee Ray Allen breaks into an abandoned house Sunday so searchers can enter

Haunting: Volunteer Calvin Brooks, a member of Black on Black Crime, searches an abandoned home for bodies Sunday in East Cleveland, OH

Squalid: Volunteer Sanautica Hicks-Ross, 18, searches an abandoned home Sunday near where three bodies were found in East Cleveland, Ohio

The hunt continues: East Cleveland Police have brought in dogs to help locate the additional oen to two bodies police chief Ralph Spotts expects to find

The neighborhood is reeling from the discovery.

'Something like this is very upsetting to me, to my kids and to my grandchildren,' Bernadette Bass told WOIO.

Another woman knew the suspect after having to keep him away from both her daughter and cousin.

'It's very scary, especially when he used to be talking to my daughter," Nathenia Crosby, 48, told the AP. 'But I told him he was too old to be talking to my daughter because she was only 19. When I found out how old he was, I said, 'You need to move on, she's too young.'

Known as the 'Cleveland Strangler,' Anthony Sowell was discovered by police after a woman escaped his house during an attempted rape.

During trial, it was revealed that Sowell raped and strangled 11 women June 2007 to July 2009 and then hid their remains around his Cleveland home.

Sowell's victims were all recovering or
current drug addicts aged 24 to 52, the killings were so brutal that
prosecutors called him 'the worst offender in the history of Cuyahoga
County and arguably the State of Ohio. He was sentenced to death and is currently in prison.

CLEVELAND'S RECENT HISTORY OF HIGH-PROFILE CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

This is the third high-profile case in Cleveland, Ohio, involving the disappearance of women off the streets of the city.

The charges against sex offender Michael Madison comes just two months after a woman missing for a decade escaped from a run-down Cleveland home,
saying she and two other women had been held captive there for years.

Former school bus driver Ariel Castro was later charged with nearly
1,000 counts of kidnapping, rape and other crimes. The three women
disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and
20 years old. Each said she had accepted a ride from Castro, who
fathered a daughter, now 6, with one of the women. He has pleaded not
guilty and is jailed on $8 million bond.

Anthony Sowell was arrested October 31, 2009, after police investigating a woman's report that she had been raped at his house began finding bodies. Eventually, the remains of 11 troubled women were discovered. Prosecutors say that the victims began disappearing in 2007 and that Sowell lured them to his home with the promise of alcohol or drugs.

The victims were disposed of in garbage bags and plastic sheets, then dumped in various parts of the house and yard. Sowell was convicted in 2011 and sentenced to death in the women's murders. He now sits on death row.

Sentenced: Anthony Sowell is sentenced to death in 2011 for the rape and murder of 11 women in Cleveland, he may have inspired Madison

Police, the FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department went through yards and abandoned houses in the area where all three bodies were found. They used dogs trained to find cadavers. The search ended around 11 p.m.

This weekend's discovery is just the latest in a series of horrific acts uncovered by local police in recent years.

Ariel Castro, a retired school bus driver in the Cleveland area, was found in May to have been keeping prisoner three women who vanished more than a decade ago. Officials have levied almost 1,000 counts of rape, kidnap and torture against him after alleging that he routinely chained and raped them, even fathering a child with one of the victims. Castro was also charged with two counts of aggravated murder after he allegedly punched one of the women, causing the unlawful termination of a pregnancy.

Dishwasher Charles Ramsey famously freed the women after seeing victim Amanda Berry trying to pry open a door in a home across the street from his, making him an instant celebrity.